Watercolor Coloring for Comics and Illustrations
Tests and sketches
A course by Sergio Bleda, Comic Book Author and Professional Illustrator
About the video: Tests and sketches
Overview
“We are going to color a simple geometric figure and its shadow. We will also apply watercolor strokes in various ways. On dry paper, on a wet watercolor stain of another color, etc. The idea is to warm up your hand and start learning how watercolor behaves. ”
In this video lesson Sergio Bleda addresses the topic: Tests and sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Coloring for Comics and Illustrations. Learn direct coloring techniques and how to apply them to your vignettes and illustrated stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“In today's lesson. we'll start by warming up our hands slightly before diving into coloring our page. I'll demonstrate the contrast between dry stroke and wet stroke techniques. allowing you to observe how Initially. i'll demonstrate a standard watercolor stroke using both water and pigment together. As you can see. i'm wetting the brush. and now with the brush loaded with water I'm going to take the pigment directly from the pan. As we're not blending it with another color. we'll wet it directly from the pan with the brush. We'll dip the brush in water. then directly into the pigment in th...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Coloring for Comics and Illustrations
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Comic, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Sergio Bleda
A course by Sergio Bleda
Sergio Bleda began his career as a cartoonist and scriptwriter in 1991, making comic strips for the regional weekly Crónica; since then he has evolved his craft as a cartoonist and illustrator, excelling in the horror genre, although he also does humor, children's, adventure, and erotic works.
He has worked for magazines such as El Víbora and Kiss Comix, and with international publishers such as Casterman and Soleil, with which he has published series such as NSA and Dolls Killer He has also been awarded the prize for best illustrated album in the I Edition of the Carlos Giménez Awards for Cinco Relatos Apasionados, an erotic book with explicit content written by Ricardo Esteban and illustrated by Bleda.
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